Fenton, Mo. — Mel Bay Publications, Inc. has announced the coming release of Bluegrass Breaks: Mandolin, 23 Bluegrass Mandolin Solos, 13 Kickoffs and 4 Back-Up Parts by Dix Bruce.
Online recordings are available with purchase and set at slow and regular speeds. Includes easy melodic solos/breaks; more advanced solos with blue notes, arpeggios, and more; double stop solos; essential fiddle tunes every mandolin player should know; crosspicking solos; a variety of kickoffs or introductions; different styles of back-up mandolin.
Contents
- Introduction
- Pig in a Pen up and down picking
- Sitting on Top of the World up and down picking, tremolo
- Bile Them Cabbage Down fiddle tune
- Ground Hog solo in the key of A
- Midnight on the Stormy Deep double stops, tremolo
- I’ll be All Smiles Tonight waltz time
- New River Train continuous eighth notes, closed positions, transposing
- Somebody Touched Me closed position in B
- Darling Cory blue notes
- Wedding Waltz waltz, roadmaps
- East Virginia Blues closed position, key of E
- Columbus Stockade Blues blue notes, key of C
- Fair and Tender Ladies crosspicking
- Lonesome Valley crosspicking
- Flop-Eared Mule fiddle tune
- Shebeg and Sheemore Irish tune
- Reuben’s Train solo with drones
- My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains double stops, slides
- Little Rosewood Casket closed position, key of F
- John Henry blue notes, position changes
- Blackberry Blossom fiddle tune
- Handsome Molly up and down picking, slides
- The Old Gray Mare fiddle tune
- Silent Night closed position, double stops, Christmas song
- Will the Circle be Unbroken crosspicking
- Amazing Grace back up part
- Take this Hammer back up part, call and response
- Midnight on the Stormy Deep back up part, crosspicking
- There’s More Pretty Girls than One back up part, double stop tremolo
- Kickoffs
- Little Rosewood Casket kickoff key of F, eight measures
- East Virginia Blues kickoff key of E
- I’ll be All Smiles Tonight kickoff key of A, eight measures, waltz time
- Somebody Touched Me kickoff key of B
- Amazing Grace kickoff key of G, double stops, tremolo, single notes
- There’s More Pretty Girls than One kickoff #1 key of F, double stops, short
- There’s More Pretty Girls than One kickoff #2 key of F, double stops, long
- Will the Circle be Unbroken kickoff #1 key of G, double stops, tremolo
- Will the Circle be Unbroken kickoff #2 key of G, crosspicking
Additional Information
- Pre-order from Elderly Instruments
- Pre-order from amazon.com
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